Tag: fledgling

A juvenile raven comes calling

A family of ravens lives in a tree down the street from me.  I have often seen what I believe to be the same pair overhead for the past several years, often just enjoying flying around.   There are other ravens around, of course, and I often see them overhead or in the trees in the […]

A juvenile steller’s jay learns to crack a nut

  Updated I am lucky enough to be surrounded by the magnificent steller’s jay.   A group of them live in a tall conifer across a small park from my house.  (Unfortunately BC Hydro contractors opened up one part of the tree while rewiring the neighbourhood so the steller’s jays in that tree may be vulnerable.)  […]

Stellar jay fledge

The adventures of the stellar jay fledglings

  Early last Sunday morning I heard the thump of a bird hitting the glass door that leads out to my deck. I looked out and saw the bird stagger around the deck then take wing and land on the table on the deck. Birds do hit the door a few times a year and […]

Portrait of a stellar jay fledgling

For the second time this summer, a fledgling has taken refuge on my back deck and just stayed there.  A few weeks ago it was a young robin. On Monday, it was a fledgling stellar jay. I had just got home and the young bird was sitting right under my feeder, not moving. the summer […]

Fledglings’ first flight

Sometimes the photos come to you. Be prepared.  I have my Sony Alpha 850 with the Sigma 170-500mm on the dining room table to shoot the birds that come to my feeder. It had been a slow week at the feeder On Wednesday morning, a fledgling robin suddenly lands on my back deck, and not […]